Hi All,

I am a SWL from India and hope to get a ticket soon. I am constructing
a simple receiver and i would like to construct a good antenna for my
receiver and in future for my transmitter as well. I came across a
design in a souvenir released by Hamfest India where an antenna called
"Pyramid Antenna" is described. The author gave reference to one design
published in Radio Magazibe 1982 by Steve Bauer,DJIUS. I came across
another similar design described in
http://www.warc.org.uk/clubmag/qsx13.pdf . I would like to know more
about this antenna and the experience of using it, and about it's
performance. My house is near a 11KV power line and my antenna will be
less than 15 feet from the above said power line.

Thanks in advance.

Regards
Shan
SWL

I have no experience with this antenna but I always recomend a 1/2
wave dipole to start with. It is more likely than any other antenna to
give good results under all conditions. Save the complicated things
for later!

Having said that, I must add that I would not install ANY antenna only
15 feet from an 11 KV transmission line!

There has to be another way.

On 28 Mar 2006 02:29:00 -0800, wrote:

Hi All,

I am a SWL from India and hope to get a ticket soon. I am constructing
a simple receiver and i would like to construct a good antenna for my
receiver and in future for my transmitter as well. I came across a
design in a souvenir released by Hamfest India where an antenna called
"Pyramid Antenna" is described. The author gave reference to one design
published in Radio Magazibe 1982 by Steve Bauer,DJIUS. I came across
another similar design described in
http://www.warc.org.uk/clubmag/qsx13.pdf . I would like to know more
about this antenna and the experience of using it, and about it's
performance. My house is near a 11KV power line and my antenna will be
less than 15 feet from the above said power line.

Thanks in advance.

Regards
Shan
SWL
John Ferrell W8CCW